2021
All Memory is Theft, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, June – Octobe
2019
History a Lie Commonly Agreed Upon, Windsor Art Gallery, Canada, Feb 9 – May 12, 2019
2018
Double Take: Films by Johan Grimonprez, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Manoa, Hawaii, Oct 21 – Dec 6, 2018
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Japan, April 16 – May 18, 2018
every day words disappear, VOID Contemporary Art Centre Derry, Ireland, Feb 3 – Mar 10, 2018
2017
All Memory is Theft, Flow 13, Han Nefkens & Antonio Tapies foundation Barcelona, Spain Dec. 2017 [ screening/lecture]
Double Take, Ierimonti Gallery, Italy, Nov 5 2017
Time, a hesitant smile, CINEMATEK Brussels, Belgium, Oct 18 – Nov 30, 2017 (Retrospective)
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Project Native Informant, London, United Kingdom, Jul. 20 2017
Tate’s Artist Rooms: Johan Grimonprez, Caithness Horizons Museum, Schotland, Mar 10 – Jun 4 2017
The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer, ltd los angeles, L.A. USA, Mar 25 – April 26 2017
| blue orchids |, The Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, USA, May 2 – Oct 8, 2017
| blue orchids |, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA, Jan 27 – Mar 11, 2017
2016
IDFA in het Stedelijk: Johan Grimonprez, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Nov. 2016
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y & No Man’s Land: Politics in the Sky – Skyjackers’ Series, Flatland Gallery Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Nov. 17 – Dec. 22, 2016
THE REAL DOUBLE, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, USA, October 2016
2015
It’s a Poor Sort of Memory That Only Works Backwards, SVA Chelsea Gallery, USA, Jan 17 – Jan 31 2015
2013
Johan Grimonprez: MAYBE THE SKY IS REALLY GREEN, AND WE’RE JUST COLOURBLIND, Ligne de Recherche de l’École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne
2011
It’s a Poor Sort of memory that Only Works Backwards, S.M.A.K, Gent, Belgium, Oct 15, 2011 – Jan 8, 2012
HE MISTOOK THE GROUNDLIGHTS FOR STARS AND ASKED WHY THE AIRPLANE WAS FLYING UPSIDE DOWN, ltd los angeles, L.A. USA, Feb 8 – March 24, 2011
Double Take, Ierimonti Gallery, Milano, Italy, Jan 16 – 28, 2011
It’s a Ppoor Ssort of Mmemory that Oonly Wworks Bbackwards, The Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, USA, Jan 15 – March 26, 2011
2010
Double Take, Ierimonti Gallery, Milano, Italy, Nov 27, 2010 – Jan 01, 2011
Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany, June 1 – Aug 21, 2010
Johan Grimonprez, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 22 – July 10, 2010
Double Take, DocForthnight, MoMA, New York, USA, March 3, 2010
Looking for Alfred, Cinémathèque Québecoise, Montréal, Canada, Jan 7 – Feb 14, 2010 (solo show – screenings)
2009
Johan Grimonprez, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden, March 28 – June 7, 2009
Double Take, Sean Kelly Gallery New York, USA, Feb 6 – March 14, 2009 (solo show – screening)
2008
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, Feb 12 – 24, 2008 (solo show – screening)
2007
J’ai oublié mon parapluie, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, Oct 18 – Nov 30, 2007 (solo show – screening)
Le ciel est peut être vert et nous daltoniens, Le Plateau Espace Experimental / Frac Ile-de-France, France, Sept 13 – Oct 13, 2007 (solo show – screening)
Johan Grimonprez, Retrospektive, Pinakothek der Moderne, Münich, Germany, May 10 – Aug 19, 2007 (solo show – screening – publication)
2006
But The Cups Never Grew To Be Kettles, Erna Hécey Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, Dec 16, 2005 – Feb 9, 2006 (solo show – screening)
2005
Johan Grimonprez, Looking f or Alfred, Moderna Museet, Sweden, May 1 – June 1, 2005 (solo show – screening)
Johan Grimonprez, Looking for Alfred, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, March 4 – April 3, 2005 (solo show – screening)
Johan Grimonprez, Looking for Alfred, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick Arts Centre, UK, Feb 14 – March 8, 2005 (solo show – screening)
2004
Johan Grimonprez, Looking for Alfred, The Photografers’ Gallery, London, UK, Dec 9, 2004 – Jan 9, 2005 (solo show – screening)
Looking for Alfred, a film project by Johan Grimonprez, part of Revolution/Restoration Part II, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Dec 19, 2004 (solo show – screening)
Johan Grimonprez: Looking for Alfred, Photographers Gallery, London, UK, Dec 8, 2004 – Jan 9, 2005 (solo show – screening)
We never tell everything, we always keep something for the next anthropologist, Johan Grimonprez, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA, April 30- May 29, 2004 (solo show – screening)
HOLLYWOOD Flag Raising Ceremony, Hollywood Hills House, USA, Feb 8, 2004
2003
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, The Essor Gallery, London, UK, Nov 29 – Jan 25, 2003 (solo show – screening)
Remo, Osaka, Japan, Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2003 (solo show – screening)
Kojimachi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, April, 2003 (solo show – screening)
During Commercial Break…, web project introduced by Johan Grimonprez, Argos Brussels, Belgium, March 14, 2003
2002
How do we know the sky isn’t really green and we’re just colorblind?, videolibrary at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Los Angeles, USA, April 20 – June 9, 2002 (solo show – screening)
2001
Maybe the sky is green and we’re just colorblind, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1 – July 7, 2001 (website)
I’m a bit like you, I’m a bit in the clouds, Impakt/ Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 25 – June 17, 2001 (website)
2000
Erna-Hécey Gallery, Luxemburg, Nov 10 – Dec 31, 2000
Deitch Projects, New York, USA, Oct 12 – Nov 4, 2000
House of Contemporary Arts, Trafó, Budapest, Oct, 2000
Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct, 2000
Maybe the sky is green and we’re just colorblind, videolounge, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium, Sept 23 – Dec 5, 2000 (catalogue – website)
Magnetoscopio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept, 2000
Atomium, Brussels, Belgium, Sept 23, 2000
Centro Galego Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 29 – Sept 17, 2000 (catalogue)
Museum für Neue Kunst/ Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 6, 2000
Your Words Have Reached My Ears, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, June 9 – 23, 2000 (website)
INSERT COMMERCIAL HERE, videolounge at The Kitchen, New York, USA, April 14 – 29, 2000
1999
Oakville Gallery, Oakville, Toronto, Canade, Aug 14 – Oct 3, 1999
Casino d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, July 22 – 23, 1999
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, June 5 – July 18, 1999 (publication)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, April 29, 1999
Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia, March 19 – April 11, 1999
1998
Gallery 227, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Oct, 1998 – May, 1999 (publication – website)
We must be over the rainbow…, Centro Galego Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Sept 24 – Nov 15, 1998 (monography)
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cambridge, USA, Sept 15, 1998
Chapter Art Center, Cardiff, UK, July 6 – 27, 1998
La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, May 20, 1998
Centro Cultural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 28 – May 3, 1998
Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, March 23, 1998
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, March 4 – April 1, 1998
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA, Feb 25 – 28, 1998
Bild Museet, Umea, Sweden, Feb 14 – April 19, 1998
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, Feb 15, 1998
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK, Jan 30 – March 7, 1998 (website)
Münchener Kunstverein, München, Germany, Jan 23 – 25, 1998
Ludwig-Suermondt Museum, Aachen, Germany, 1998
1997
Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway, Nov 29 – Dec 17, 1997
Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland, Nov 25, 1997
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MUHKA), Belgium, Nov 23, 1997
Palais des Beaux Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium, Nov 12 – 14, 1997
Prends Garde! A Jouer au fantôme, on le devient, De Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, Nov, 1997
Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct 31, 1997 – Jan 11, 1998
Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct 21, 1997
Deitch Projects, New York, USA, Sept 9 – 27, 1997
Prends Garde! A Jouer au fantôme, on le devient, MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, June 4 – Sept 29, 1997 (publication – website)
1995
Beware! In playing the phantom you become one, Vereniging van het Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, March 17 – April 1, 1995 (publication)
1994
It wil be all right if you come again, only next time don’t bring any gear except a tea kettle, Antichambres, Les Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts/ Tentoonstellingen van het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium, April 14 – June 5, 1994 (monography)
1994
YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Nov 24 – Dec 18, 1993